The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 13
BRYN MA^R AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, *936
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS. 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
1939's Class Show
Entertains College
With Caricatures
Management by Different Halls
Results in Loose Plot, Many
Individual Actors
"LOWLY WORM" TAKEN
AS FRESHMAN ANIMAL
Goodhart, February 15.�With a
�melodious plea to the juniors and a
satirical wink at the rest of the
world, the freshmen raised the cur-
tain on 19S6 and All That, their ver-
sion of the annual class show. The
plot seemed designed to allow them
to imitate as many persons and insti-
tutions, local and international, as
possible. It concerned the trials of
the executives in four important na-
tions who had all by strange coinci-
dence,- married members of the class
of 1936 of Bryn Mawr College.
Though the five scenes of the first
act were managed by the various
halls, the entire production was di-
rected by Delia Marshall and Bar-
bara Bigelow. Nancy Toll was busi-
ness manager of the play and also
did the lighting.
The first five scenes snowed Hitler,
Haile Selassie, Mussolini, Lord
Chomondely (Prime Minister of Eng-
land) and Mr. Onion, of Onion Isle,
separately making their final prepa-
rations for a journey to Geneva for
the purpose of arranging a war.
Four of these five statesmen were
married, respectively, to Anne Reese,
Barbara Cary, Frances Porcher and
Pauline Manship. The well-educated
women insisted upon forcing their
husbands to benefit by the opportun-
ities which they had found at Bryn
Mawr; and therefore they undertook
to teach them languages, diction,
body-mechanics and fire drill tech-
nique, besides supervising their lead-
ership in the affairs of state. The
energy of the well-educated consorts
was appreciated in different degrees
in different countries. The Germans
seemed to take kindly to Frau Reese-
Hitler, while objecting mildly to fire
drills. The English were a trifle
shocked, but on the whole, delighted
Continued on Pag� Six
College Urged to Take
May Day in its Stride
Goodhart, February 13.�Mrs. Man-
ning announced in chapel that it is the
purpose of the college, represented by
Miss Park, Mrs. Manning and the Fac-
ulty, to "take May Day in its stride."
The rehearsals will fit into the regu-
lar class schedule except during the
last week. This is not difficult, except
for the laboratory work, if the work
on the plays is started in time. The
main burden of the organization of
May Day is not intended to rest on
the student body, and for this reason
outside coaches are brought in to take
charge of the plays. The plays are
short and numerous, and since none
of them takes an hour to give, no stu-
dent should have too much of her time
taken up with rehearsals. No one
actor carries a whole play, and the
numerous short rehearsals prevent the
crowding of rehearsals which often
occurs in an ordinary play.
After the Easter vacation the at-
mosphere on the campus will prob-
ably be unfavorable to serious
scholarly attempts. It is most im-
portant, therefore, that long reports
be started and finished, if possible,
by Spring Vacation. Weekends will
have to be used for rehearsals and
for "catching up." Though it may
seem a hardship to have to give up
one particular weekend, we will later
feel that the experience of working
together as a college has meant more
to us than even a very delightful
weekend could. We will enjoy the
process of cooperating with the whole
college. The midsemester quiz period
will be over by Spring Vacation.
There will not be more than three con-
secutive days of quizzes for any one
student, and the period should go
smoothly. It should be possible to
prepare for the quizzes without any
great difficulty. They are not like ex-
aminations, and do not need an ex-
tensive amount of study. The prob-
lems of those few students who have
deferred or conditioned examinations
will be dealt with individually.
It is very important that no group
of students, nor any individual, al-
low grievances to accumulate. Any
complaint or difficulty should be taken
to Miss Fabyan or Miss Rose, the
undergraduate members of the May
Day Committee.
1936 MAY QUEEN
How the Wheels Go 'Round
Jane Alleyne Lewis
Merion Sophomore
Will be May Queen
Blonde Beauty is Accomplished
Violinist, Hopes to Become
Designer
WAS REGIONAL SCHOLAR
FOR FRESHMAN YEAR
JANE ALLEYNE LEWIS, '38
Theorems Are Sought
For Modes of Meaning
Richards Believes New Rhetoric
Must Examine Functions of
Individual Words
PROBLEM IS ABSTRACT
(Editor's Note. This is the first
of a series of articles on the machin-
ery which enables Bryn Mawr to
function as a community. It is writ-
ten from a purely student point of
view from the annual report of the
Treasurer and Comptroller, available
at the office of the Comptroller.)
Until two years ago a small note
was attached to the bills which were
sent to our parents for tuition stat-
ing that the actual cost of educating
each student was nearly double the
$500- actually charged. This notice
has been tactfully omitted recently
in deference to the feelings of ear-
nest yet hard-pressed parents, but
the fact remains that in 1933-1934 it
cost the college $970 per student for
academic expenses alone and the fee
charged remained at $500. In spite
of this fact Bryn Mawr is one of
the few leading colleges and universi-
ties which has had no operating de-
ficit since the peak of the depression.
Back of these apparently divergent
facts lies a realm little known to
the students with which the mysteri-
ous word "endowment" is usually
associated. This world of college
finances is kept running smoothly
and efficiently with salaries paid and
meals served promptly by the per-
fect teamwork of President Park,
Treasurer Scattergood and Comp-
troller Hurst. Each disclaims credit
for the remarkable fact the Bryn
Mawr pays its bills in spite of a
topsy-turvy business world, but each
admits that "housewifely" economies
have made Bryn Mawr a better
housekeeper in these times than- her
wealthier brethren.
Financially speaking, the college
consists of the plant plus about six
million dollars in endowment, or in-
vested securities, whose income from
dividends and interest pays current
expenses and maintains the real es-
tate property. No one has ever
bothered to evaluate the land on
which the college stands, and since
land values have altered greatly
since purchase, the college has no
intention of selling out. Recently land
in this vicinity has sold for $20,000
to $25,000 an acre, so that the six-
ty-two acres of campus could be
valued at $124,000. Insurance (blanket
insurance spread over fourteen com-
panies for absolute safety) is carried
on "above ground improvements,"
which means buildings and contents
to the sum of $2,600,000 for 80 per
cent of the value. This would bring
the total value of the plant, endow-
ment, land and buildings to $10,000,-
000, a trifling sum when compared
to the tremendous corporations of
the men's universities.
Investment of Endowment
The bulk of the endowment, 69.7
per cent is invested in bonds, with
mortgages, real estate, stocks and
perpetual insurance in successively
decreasing amounts. In watching
the market for possible investment
openings the Treasurer does not
seek the chance for a quick sale, but
certainty that *be issuing company
will be able to pay off the principal
when the investment matures. This
conforms strictly to the cautious
polfcy of the founder who set forth
in his will that the Trustees are "to
distribute their investments and to
look to the security of the principal
invested, rather than to a high rate
Continued on Page Four
Goodhart, February 17.�In the sec-
ond of his series of lectures, Mr. I. A.
Richards declared that his purpose
was to formulate a theorem about
every mode of meaning which would
serve as a basic point of view from
which to recognize problems of a new
rhetoric, and at the same time to at-
tempt to solve these problems of dis-
course.
At the end of his first lecture Mr.
Richards had explained that the study
of his new rhetoric,' or more specific-
ally, the inquiry about how words
work, must entail a critical examina-
tion of its own assumptions, just as
philosophical speculation does. This
examination, moreover, must be on a
minute scale as well as on a macro-
scopic scale; it must investigate the
functions of individual words as well
as of whole sentences and paragraphs.
The student who seeks a theorem
on which to base his study of such
units of discourse will find much to
help him in the old traditional prob-
lems. But he will recognize that
rhetoricians of the old school regarded
discourse as a "battle of words."
From the newer, more fundamental
point of view, persuasion is only one
aim of language, and it often poaches
on other forms, such as exposition,
whose aim is simply to state a view.
Some of the best illustrations of dis-
pute poaching on exposition are found I
in the correspondence columns of re-
views and newspapers, where the
writer often takes.other men's words
to prove his own contentions.
The theorem which is to be funda-
mental enough to aid in consideration
of this problem (that is, the problem
of the rivalries of the different ends
of discourse), must of necessity be
very abstract and general in the high-
est degree. It will have to be ap-
plicable to every sort of meaning,
but its specific applications should
clear up its difficulty. One must
start with an abstract, philosophic
theorem and proceed to its application
in literary forms if the meaning o'f
literary forms is to be well under-
Two General Problems
stood.
There will be two general sorts of
problems to be considered by means
of the theorem to be discovered. The
first has already been mentioned: the
Continued on Pace Five
College Calendar
Wednesday, February 19.�
Horace Alwyne, F. R. M. C. M.,
will give a concert in Goodhart
Hall. 8.30 p. m.
Thursday, February 20.�Eng-
lish Conference with I. A. Rich-
ards. Room F, Taylor Hall.
4.30 p. m.
Friday, February 21.�Square
Dance in the Gymnasium. 9
p. m.
Sunday, February 23.�Louis
Untermeyer will speak on A
Critic's Half Holiday. Deanery,
5 p. m.
Bryn Mawr Establishes
Exchange Scholarships
In an effort to compensate for the
loss of foreign scholars on the
campus, four exchange scholarships
have been established, with the co-
operation of the Institute of Interna-
tional Education. These exchanges
are with France, Germany, Italy and
Spain, that is, the four countries
which furnish the modern languages
of the Bryn Mawr curriculum. Under
this arrangement, Bryn Mawr gives
board, lodging and tuition to the schol-
ars from these countries and has the
right to ask of them four to five hours
of language teaching. The French
Department, which experimented this
year with the plan, has had a most
satisfactory candidate in Mademoiselle
Nasse, licenciee of the University of
Bordeaux, who has supplemented the
oral teaching of the first year French
and has made a great contribution to
the undergraduate French Club and
the 'group of graduate students in
French, with whom she has lived in
Radnor Hall.
The exchange character of these
scholarships is also of immense value,
enabling, as it does, a candidate recom-
mended by Bryn Mawr to study in
each of these four foreign countries.
Continued on Page Four
News Tryouts
The College News is starting
tryouts for the Editorial Board
this week. Will all those wish-
ing to try out please come to
the News office on Thursday
afternoon at six o'clock? The
early tryouts will permit six
weeks before all assignments
must be in, so that May Day
need in no way interfere with
busy students wishing to try
out. All freshmen and sopho-
mores regardless of previous
training are urged to come
down on Thursday.
Jane Alleyne Lewis, the only can-
didate chosen to compete for the honor
by Merion Hall, has been elected May
Queen by an overwhelming "popular
vote.
Sixteen undergraduates were select-
ed by the various halls to enter the
tryouts for the coveted role. Only.,
thirteen of them appeared, however,
at the first tryout on February 6,
when they walked in the Gymnasium
to the enthusiastic applause of under-
graduates crowding the balcony.
From this number three girls, Doreen
Canaday, '36, Marian Chapman, '36,
and Jane Lewis, '38, were told to ap-
pear at the next tryout.
Those three tried out again on
February 10, in costume, to read the
part of Maid Marian. Since a May
Queen, in addition to being blonde,
beautiful and able to act, must also
photograph well, pictures of the three
finalists were taken in costume
February 11 and posted the follow-
ing day. On February 13 the college
cast their votes and the next day the
election of Miss Lewis was announced
to the college.
No Stage Aspirations
Miss Lewis, chosen as May Queen
because of her beauty of face and fig-
ure and her quality of photographing
well, has no desire to act on stage or
screen. Extremely modern, she has
considered television work; but her
real ambition is to become a designer
or a violinist.
Although she appeared in dramatic
productions at Miss Fine's School in
Princeton, where she prepared for col-
lege, her connection with the drama
at Bryn Mawr has been limited to a
part in the Christmas freshman skit
in Pembroke a year ago, and to "blow-
ing a whistle in Freshman Show when
the lines could not be heard." This
year she joined Glee Club and became
a member of the choir.
Miss Lewis has always wanted to be
a violinist and has studied violin for
ten years, both here and for six
months in Paris with M. Hewitt.
Years ago she had to decide "whether
to be a violinist or a normal child,"
and chose the latter; but her enthu-
siasm has not abated, as she practices
regularly and divides her interest be-
tween music and designing.
She is one of the models most fre-
quently in demand for the Art Club
here. Her modelling experience dates
back to the time when she was "a wee
Continued on Page Five
Louis Untermeyer Will
Speak Here on Sunday
Mr. Louis Untermeyer, author and
editor, will talk on A Critic's Half
Holiday at the Deanery on Sunday,
February 23, at five o'clock. Mr.
Untermeyer, now among the first
of the American poets, was born in
New York on October 1, 1885, and
began his career in the jewelry
manufacturing business of his fath-
er's and uncle's firm. He became
manager of the chief factory at
Newark, New Jersey, but resigned
to devote his attention to writing.
His first book of poems, The Younger '
Quire, was published in 1910. Since
then he has published much original
work, including poetry and fiction,
and several anth6logies of poetry.
His latest-hook, Poetry�Its Appre-
ciation anil Enjoyment, appeared in
1934.
On Mr. Untermeyer's last visit to
the college, he proved such a success
that the Entertainment Committee
considered holding his lecture next
Sunday in the Auditorium in Good-
hart instead of in the Deanery. They
decided, however, to have the lecture
in the Deanery because of its more
informal atmosphere.